On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Steve Hitchcock wrote:
> At 09:25 AM 12/17/97 gmt, you wrote:
> >With a growth in live database/web transactions with no actual
> >html pages residing on servers, does anyone have any suggestions
> >as to how Dublin Core metadata fits into this scenario?
> >
> >Should we be storing index pages containing metadata for each
> >item in the database?
>
> A good point, the subtext to which is perhaps: how soon are we likely to
> move from the conventional document structure that characterises formal
> academic communication and on which most journals, library-held
> publications and much (DC) metadata work is founded now that the move to
> e-publishing is so widely supported?
The current trend is away from Dublin Core metadata embedded in HTML META
tags and towards the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
http://www.w3.org/Metadata/RDF/Overview.html
RDF is an XML application. The Dublin Core will be expressed in
RDF. RDF is widely seen as the critical metadata architecture for
the Web. For example, ee
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/971107a.htm
Although we will see mechanisms for embedding RDF into existing HTML Web
pages this is unlikely to be its primary method of use. A quick scan of
the November Seybold Report on Internet Publishing sees RDF mentioned
several times with the strong implication that they expect suppliers of
Web publishing systems to support RDF in the (reasonably) near future.
Andy.
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